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In our story about Greater Sudbury, we must first acknowledge the First People of this territory. When the Europeans arrived, they made contact with the Whitefish Lake Ojibwa, “hardy self-reliant people who led a semi-nomadic life following the food cycle of fish, game and plants,” wrote E.G Higgins in Sudbury Then & Now, published in [...]

Sipping News Not exclusively a summer drink, serve apple cider as a refreshing alternative during the holidays.   BY HUGH KRUZEL Beverage selection seems to be growing by the week. We are always hearing of some new product, an emerging country or a novel twist. Well, cider is old news renewed.   Around since medieval [...]

Renowned designer and innovator Bruce Mau was born in Sudbury in 1959. After a year studying under Jack Smith at Sudbury Secondary School, he attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. He left before graduating to join the Fifty Fingers desing group in 1980 at the age of 21, where he stayed [...]

  As if Christmas wasn’t sweet enough, we have a special cake for the holidays. Christmas fruit cake is a tradition that comes to us from the British Isles. In England, the fruit cake was originally known as Twelfth Night cake and eaten on the traditional last day of the Christmas season. There was a [...]

The owner of the Hanmer Hotel, Frank Dennie purchased land in the Township of Capreol after he learned the Canadian Northern Railway was building a junction where the rail line coming north from Toronto would meet the line being built from Montreal. He erected the first building close to the river where the grocery store [...]

  A full spring garden is not as common, as evident, as the summer garden. But they are a wonderful panacea to the long, cold winter. I found one within a kilometre of my home in LoEllen Park. Ruth Doucette has a authentic spring garden. The first wave of spring in the merry month of [...]

BY LINDA CARTIER AND JOHN LINDSAY Surreal was the best description of our visit to Sudbury, Mass., a town that bears the same name as our city, however, that’s about all the two centers have in common. It was a very interesting but somewhat disconcerting experience to be in such a different and unfamiliar setting [...]

Andy Lowe plays every Wednesday at OTR on Notre Dame Ave. Andy Lowe has logged more hours at the microphone than anyone I know. His life story and talents are as varied as any of the 300 songs he can perform flawlessly from memory. A few summers ago,  Juno winner/music producer David Bradstreet and I [...]

The future King of England, William, and his brother, Harry, visited Science North in 1991. They were on their first official tour of Canada with their parents, but the visit to Sudbury was done quietly. On the 20th anniversary of that visit, in 2011, Science North CEO Jim Marchbank remembered the young princes arrived in [...]

Cinefest runs Sept. 15 -23Festival has become as much a part of Sudbury as the Big Nickel.Film lovers turn off their cell phones and put their schedules on hold for nine days. Many take vacation time to enjoy everything Cinéfest has to offer. People brag about how many movies they’ve seen. Others can’t remember what [...]